Peggy Montes helped establish Chicago's Women's History Month — and still is a 'lady in motion'
Peggy Montes started the Bronzeville Children's Museum, worked to elect Mayor Harold Washington and seeks to empower, inspire ...
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This Old Canaryville Irish Saloon Has Connections to Two Chicago Fires, Chicago Mobsters
A former Canaryville Irish saloon on South Halsted Street is jam-packed with connections that reflect several significant ...
Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...
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Tampa history museum is the first in US to host Spanish immigrant exhibit
After a four-year run in major Spanish cities, the exhibit “Invisible Immigrants. Spaniards in the U.S. (1868–1945)” is coming to the U.S. for the first time, with History ...
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Ancient Visitors to the Modern Wing: Art Institute Welcomes First Visit of Rare Roman Sculptures Collection
Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection” has works span hundreds of years, with the earliest piece dating from ...
Field Museum’s union rallies against low wages
Members of the Field Museum’s labor union and their supporters rallied outside the natural history museum on Wednesday to ...
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Archaeologists uncover the oldest known partial face fossil of a human ancestor in western Europe
The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found in northern Spain in 2022. The fossil is between ... a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who ...